NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK • OCTOBER 17-23, 2004 •
Hi everyone,
As a Student Affairs Professional, it saddens me to see students making choices which negatively impact their lives. Drinking too much is never a good idea.
Every year I receive publicity materials for National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. I would encourage you all to find a few facts about alcohol awareness and present them during one of your meetings or just hang up a fact sheet of some sort on your chapter's bulletin board. Make it relevant to your chapter members by adding that this information comes at the right time given the recent deaths of Greeks on other college campuses.
This website may be helpful to you:
http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/students/
Please don't just say, "Oh how sad for those kids that died".... DO SOMETHING. Stop thinking that these events are just some distant occurances. They can happen to YOU or to a well-loved member of YOUR chapter. At your next opportunity, look around at your brothers or sisters. Imagine what it would be like if you woke up tomorrow and a member was found dead in the chapter house. Would that be fun? Would that be "cool"? Of course not, it would be terribly sad, confusing and devastating. And for what? Because people didn't want to make smart choices about alcohol? Because none of the other members thought enough to look after the ones who had too much to drink?
You could lose your life, a friend, and/or your chapter's charter. It's time for us all to really stop and think about what we're doing.
.....Kelly